GFA executive Samuel Addo pleads with government to support clubs amid COVID-19

Published on: 29 May 2020

Ghana Football Association (GFA) Executive Committee member Samuel Anim Addo has pleaded with the government of Ghana to support clubs amid coronavirus pandemic.

Several clubs in the elite division are struggling to pay the salaries of players because they've been hit by the coronavirus.

All football leagues in the country have been suspended following the ban on social gathering and the complaints have worsened even more by the snub of sports in a Government of Ghana stimulus package for businesses to alleviate the impact of Covid-19.

"If we are going to always raise funds from our own pockets - the little we’ve earned from our private businesses - into the game, then we are in for trouble," Addo said, as reported by Ghana Web.

"It is time that we get support from government and corporate organizations to make sure that the game will be played the way it ought to be played because all these corporate brands use football to promote their brands.

"It is clear that they use football as a channel so they have to come in so that the game will rise to the level we all want and then we enjoy the fruit of it.

"We the people in the game in Ghana are really suffering because the little that I have saved through private businesses for my family has to be used for the game.

"In our part of the world, what we do is to pay the boys [with the little we have] until we get a transfer fee from a boy who gets to Europe. Then we get some good money, else all the money you earn from a private business will have to be invested into the game."

The Premier League was at its match week 15 stage before it was halted with Aduana Stars leading the table with 28 points.

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